Google: Pages That Look Like Error Pages Can Be Considered Soft 404s
Several months ago Google told us that returning a “results not found” type of page can result in Google Search considering that page a soft 404 and thus removing it from the search results. The same is true for “Sorry we don’t deliver to this location…
Google: The Coverage Report Won’t Get unavailable_after Meta Tag
John Mueller of Google was asked if the Google Search Console coverage report can show the unavailable_after meta tag in that report. John said he doubts it because it is “too niche.”
Google Search Console Products Rich Result Report Updated
On December 28, 2021, Google updated the rich results report for product structured data in Google Search Console. The reporting update may result in a change in the number of issues, errors and warnings that you get on and after December 28th in that…
John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years 2022
As expected, John Mueller of Google was at it again on New Years eve and New Years day – helping SEOs and site owners with their Google Search and SEO issues. Like on Christmas Eve 2021, John also did a video hangout on New Years eve, plus he was on s…
Google: Site Duplicated With IP Address Won’t Lead To Your Site Being Removed From Search
Generally Google will list a site in its search results with the domain name, not the IP address associated with the domain name. But if you see both and if your site is crawlable via the IP, it is not going to lead to your site being deindexed by Goo…
Google: Quality Of Your Languages On Your Multilingual Site Can Impact Each Other
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on the December 31st SEO hangout that if you have multiple versions of your site, and one version is deemed high quality by Google and the other version is deemed low quality by Google – the low quality version can negat…
Vlog #153: Colt Sliva On Going Beyond Frequency Statistics In SEO
In part one, we spoke about how Colt Sliva became an SEO engineer and some topics around visualizing search graphs. In part two we spoke more about entities, python for SEO and winning over developers…
Top Contributors To The Search Engine Roundtable In 2021
As you all know, I source a lot of forums and Twitter threads here for the stories that I write. Without the amazing individuals that make up the search industry, this site would not exist. In fact, when I started this site over 18 years ago, its purp…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Ranking Tremors, December Was Volatile, Sex Toy Companies In Search & New Years Is Here
The week between Christmas and New Years is general slow and it was but we did have some Google search ranking jolts and tremors this week…
Google Ads Now Has Asset Library
Google Ads is rolling out or now has the Google Creative Studio’s asset library feature directly in Google Ads. I believe Brett Bodofsky was one of the first to share this on Twitter and George Nguyen confirmed it with Google a couple weeks ago.
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Google: No Difference In SEO Value Between Nofollow, UGC Or Sponsored Link Attributes
Google’s John Mueller confirmed what it has I believe said before, that there is not difference in terms of SEO value between the three link attributes. Google supports nofollow and also UGC and sponsored link attributes. In terms of the difference in…
Google Search New Years Confetti Again & New Years Eve Doodle
If you do a search in Google Search for [new years] related keywords, Google will bring back the confetti easter egg from last year. Google by default will throw down some confetti and then let you also add more confetti to the mix by clicking on the c…
Google: We Can Handle Really Long HTML Sizes Unlike Bing
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter when it comes to really long HTML file sizes, Google can handle it – and you should not worry about it. The question came up when someone shared a screenshot of Bing Webmaster Tools giving a notice that the “HTML …
Google’s John Mueller Pays For Screaming Frog
How is this for an unpaid endorsement of your SEO product – John Mueller of Google said that he pays for a license to Screaming Frog. He said this on Reddit, where someone was asking how can he convince his boss to pony up for that license.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 29, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
This month, the month of December…
Google Search Console Announcements Bar Test
Google Search Console had this new bar at the top of the Search Console interface with announcements. It showed three types of announcements; informational, minor issue and major issue announcements. These showed up in blue, yellow and red respectivel…
Google Ads Exclude Placements Coming To Smart Shopping Campaigns?
Google seems to be testing a feature to exclude unwanted placements in Smart Shopping Campaigns within Google Ads. ADworld Experience posted this on Twitter but it is not clear if it works or if this was some sort of slip up from Google.
Semrush: December The Most Volatile Month For Google Search Of 2021
According to recent Semrush data, this month, the month of December, was the most volatile month of the year and probably Google history. Here is a chart Mordy Oberstein of Semrush shared showing how December soared amongst the rest of the months in 2…
Counterintuitive SEO Recommendations Thread
A couple of months ago, Aleyda Solis posted a thread on Twitter (I was waiting for a slow week to post it here) asking “what’s the most counterintuitive SEO recommendation/implementation you’ve done that actually made sense in the context you were work…
December 27 & 28 Google Search Ranking Algorithm Jolt On?
Around December 27th and 28th we may have a Google search ranking algorithm jolt or quick tremor. I highly doubt Google pushed out something over the holidays, this last week of December. But it might just be some weird change that jolted the search re…